$2.41T
Annual U.S. cost of poor software quality (2022).
This is the macro problem. Contract and compatibility failures are part of this loss profile.
CISQ (2022)
Market Reality
Death by a thousand cuts is still death.
Most IT organizations do not fail from one dramatic event. They fail from compounding compatibility debt: one breaking change, one rollback, one firefight at a time.
Mortar is not a Band-Aid workflow. Mortar is systemic intervention: Insight, Foresight, and Authority before production impact.
10-20%
Technology budget for new products can be diverted to debt remediation.
Budget you planned for growth gets reassigned to cleanup and stabilization.
McKinsey
20-40%
Share of technology estate value that can be consumed by technical debt.
This is enterprise drag at the platform layer, not an edge case.
McKinsey
54%
Significant outages costing more than $100K.
When contracts drift and releases are ungated, outage economics become a board-level issue.
Uptime Institute (2023)
16%
Significant outages costing more than $1M.
A subset of incidents are catastrophic, not just noisy.
Uptime Institute (2023)
Proof of Authority
Make drift legible.
This is how Mortar visualizes structural drift findings. Every finding is tied to a concrete location in your OpenAPI spec and assigned a deterministic safety classification.
Structural Drift Report
Comparing petstore-v1.yaml vs petstore-v2-draft.yaml
BREAKINGremoved operation
Required operation 'getPetById' was removed from the specification.
📍 paths./pets/{id}.get|🔗 /pets/{id}
spec.paths['/pets/{id}'].get
BREAKINGchanged field type
Field 'id' type changed from 'integer' to 'string'.
📍 components.schemas.Pet.properties.id
spec.components.schemas.Pet.properties.id.type
BREAKINGadded required field
New required field 'category' was added without a default value.
📍 components.schemas.Pet
spec.components.schemas.Pet.required
Why Buyers Act
The category gap is deterministic compatibility authority.
Existing stacks observe incidents, test fragments, or document interfaces. Mortar adds the missing layer: deterministic release authority over contract drift.